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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1906
Page
6
The piece reflects on the fascination of harvest across sunlit fields and explains why urban men join seasonal labor. It links Ruth and Boaz to gleaning, praises the communal effort, and notes harvest’s pull beyond wages, across regions with varying sun exposure.
Gen Humphrey's recommendations may end khaki in U S service with olive drab uniforms for winter and summer wear for overseas troops. Supplies lag due to a few monopolistic cloth contractors, delaying khaki coats and trousers. A Paris women’s congress scene featured a male entrant, M Legendre, triggering awkward cross talk.
A report to the Bureau of Manufactures notes rising prosecutions for adulterating foods in Germany. 1888 had 1,400 cases, rising to 3,000 in 1898, 3,586 in 1901, and 6,000 in 1903. Large firms allegedly maintain departments to science-adulterate products. butter, sausages, wines, chocolates, and cosmetics are cited.
Havana Cuba President Palma pardoned Miss Millie L C Gilmner and William Augustine Americans living in the Isle of Pines A wireless message ordered their release The pardon followed Charge d affaires Sleaper securing Secretary of Justice O Farrill to back clemency if the trio pledged not to violate the American military order against private telegraph wires They complied
A detachment of the Twenty fourth Infantry colored and native constabulary belabored by hundreds of Pulajanes on a Leyte trail between Toloss and Domami. A desperate battle left 50 Pulajanes killed and over 60 wounded. one American sergeant constabulary wounded.
New York Herald special cable reports Dreyfus was slapped by a commandant in the Circle Militaire Paris after a May honor at the Elysee. The incident sparked clashes in the club and could revive disputes over the Dreyfus affair across France.
Arthur Spaugh, convicted of second degree murder in the slaying of Iron County Sheriff Polk, Missouri, was sentenced Wednesday to 55 years in the penitentiary.
In Fond du Lac county near Long Lake and Sheboygan area, about 87 acres of cultivated land have sunk and are now submerged under deep water. Officials cite a slight earthquake shock as the likely cause. Local farmers fear to approach the site to investigate the phenomenon.
All Over Illinois reports Judge James Benjamin Ricks, retiring second district supreme court justice, died at home in Taylorville after four months of bowels cancer. Born 1852 in Christian county, he moved as a child, studied at Wesleyan, became a lawyer in 1874, served as mayor in 1889 and helped create city gas water and electric systems. He held Democratic roles including convention delegate in 1892 and pension examiner appointment in Washington.
A quoted exchange questions product performance in the south. A manufacturer complains while a drummer adds a remark about race and a safety razor. The dialogue highlights a problematic stereotype embedded in a marketing context.
George H Pickerell, U S consul on the Azorean island of St Michaels, extols the pleasant life there. He praises the climate, security, open windows, and low living cost with wages cited, noting six day sail from New York and social life including opera, circus, bands, and Spanish courting customs.
A diplomat recalled his first days as a lawyer joking about a case where a client confessed to purse snatching. He described preparing a vigorous argument, then closing with a quip that the purse was empty, implying the accused's disinterestedness.
An English newcomer in Chicago bears a burden of as many as six given names. He cannot tell which three given names are his, since a twin brother died after birth and the survivor carries the full set. To avoid misrepresentation he uses all six names, hoping to claim the correct trio.
A Swiss dairy professor reports that fresh Emmenthaler contains 90 000 to 100 000 living germs per gram, rising to 800 000 in two months. Cream cheese harbors 750 000 per gram at three weeks, up to 2 000 000 in six weeks, with rind bacteria at 5 500 000 per gram. Overall, 114 pounds of cream cheese could hold as many germs as humans on Earth.
A brief reflective motto excerpt reads Life's Journeyings The world's an inn and death the Journey's end attributed to Dryden. The line frames life as travel with death completing the voyage.
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